论福克纳小说时间主题与奥古斯丁时间观的契合

A Comparison of William Faulkner's Theme of Time and Augustinian View of Time

对时间问题的高度重视构成了福克纳小说叙事的重要组成部分。考辨福克纳小说时间主题及其艺术呈现方式,其中不乏与奥古斯丁时间观的契合之处:一方面,福克纳将奥古斯丁的主观时间观与自己的心理现实主义小说技法融合,借助记忆这一心理纽带,在小说时空跳跃等叙事策略方面进行了有益的探索和尝试;另一方面,福克纳通过发掘奥古斯丁时间观的内在结构形式特征,探索其时间向度变化和内在心灵时间的体悟方式,将时间的心灵和生命属性赋予其小说情节结构安排和人物形象塑造,从而传达出美国南方独特的"固恋过去"的历史观念,表达了强烈的救赎意识;此外,我们还可以看到,福克纳对永恒时间观念的理解与奥古斯丁如出一辙。

Close attention to time is an important element in William Faulkner’s fictional narration.An examination of the theme of time and its artistic presentation in Faulkner’s novels reveals some conjunctions with Augustinian view of time.Faulkner blends Augustinian objective view of time with his own psycho-realism techniques in the fiction and with the help of memory as a form of psychological ties,makes beneficial experiment of narrative strategy,such as time leap and so on.On the other hand,through digging the features of inner structural form of Augustinian view of time,exploring the changes of time dimension and having a thorough apprehension of inner spiritual time,Faulkner endows plots and characters in the fiction with spiritual and life attributes of time to convey unique historical concept fixed on the past of the American South,and to express strong salvation consciousness.In addition,we can see that Faulkner’s understanding of the concept of eternal time is exactly the same as that of Augustine.